Do you prefer a partner with higher IQ?

你更喜欢智商更高的伴侣吗?

Round Table China

2024-05-27

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Is it true that more and more people prefer partners who exhibit higher IQs, or is it just a hot topic over the internet? What do we hope to achieve by dating smarter people? Do smart people often translate into good partners? / Motivational Monday (20:07)! On the show: Laiming, Li Yi & Brandon Yates
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  • Discussion keeps the world turning.

  • This is round table.

  • Long before american sitcom the Big Bang Theory declared that smart is the new sexy, we humans have been redefining what it means to be attractive in the dating market.

  • Of course, quarterbacks and cheerleaders still get the most attention.

  • But nerdy members of the society also are earning their fair share of respect from their peers.

  • And if someone can excel at both sports and math, they are practically angels on earth.

  • Hello, I'm Lai Ming, and this is roundtable with Li and Bradyn Yates.

  • We seek to find out why more and more people seem to be looking for high eye intelligence in their partners.

  • So there's a new term, sapiosexuality, that people are talking about over the Internet.

  • It stands for the kind of sentiment we get.

  • Some people get the kind of people find smart people sexually attractive.

  • That seems to be the concept that people are discussing.

  • Is that true?

  • I mean, there's been a study showing that about 8% of the population exhibit that kind of tendency.

  • Yeah, actually, when we talk about sapiosexual, people might already be quite familiar with this concept.

  • In a simple way, I think sapiosexuals really find smart brains attractive.

  • So if you are more attracted by the contents of a person's mind compared with the appearance of their body, then the chances are you might be a sapiosexual.

  • And I think it's much more complicated than the simple perception that, oh, they like to date smart people.

  • I think many people find intelligence attractive, and nobody really want to date dumb people.

  • But I think for sapio sexuals, they usually have a much stronger, as you said, sexual interest in this quality.